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The siege of Masada was one of the final events in the First Jewish–Roman War, occurring from 72 to 73 CE on and around a hilltop in present-day Israel. The siege is known to history via a single source, Flavius Josephus , [ 3 ] a Jewish rebel leader captured by the Romans , in whose service he became a historian.
Josephus said that the Sicarii raided nearby Jewish villages including Ein Gedi, where they massacred 700 women and children. [11] [15] [16] [17] In 73 AD, the Roman governor of Iudaea, Lucius Flavius Silva, headed the Roman legion X Fretensis and laid siege to Masada. [11] Another source gives the year of the siege of Masada as 73 or 74 AD. [18]
The Jewish Journey: Frederic Brenner's Photographic Odyssey, October 2005 - January 8, 2006, 115 photographs highlighting the diversity of the Jewish people worldwide. Deadly Medicine: Creating The Master Race from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum , and Where Would You Draw The Line? , created by the Maltz Museum, September 25, 2007 ...
Two waves of immigration from Europe created most of the Jewish communities seen in Ohio today, Reid said. One in the mid-1800s and another from 1881 to 1924. By the early 2000s, those once ...
The Sicarii [a] (“Knife-wielder”, “dagger-wielder”, “dagger-bearer”; from Latin sica = dagger) were a group of Jewish Zealots, who, in the final decades of the Second Temple period, conducted a campaign of targeted assassinations and kidnappings of Roman officials in Judea and of Jews who collaborated with the Roman Empire.
The First Jewish-Roman War ended with the devastating siege and destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE, including the burning of the Second Temple—the center of Jewish religious and national life. Roman forces destroyed other towns and villages throughout Judaea, causing massive loss of life and displacement of the population. [12]
A homicide investigation is underway after three women were found dead inside a Columbus, Ohio residence over the weekend.. On Saturday, Dec. 14 just before 4 p.m. local time, Columbus Police ...
A group of masked anti-Israel demonstrators marked the anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre by setting up an encampment outside freshman Jewish Democratic Rep. Greg Landsman’s Cincinnati home.